Russian gas tanker Arctic Metagaz on fire near Malta, doing a passable imitation of a sunset. It's widely suspected to be the work of Ukrainian artists as part of a continued installation called "Russian warship go fuck yourself". The crew is reportedly accounted for and has been rescued by the Maltese authorities.
Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project at the Tate. A giant orange sun hangs over the Turbine Hall.
Who did it better?
03.03.2026 21:50 β
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Ukraine War Latest: Ukrainian forces liberate 9 eastern settlements as Russian troops face Starlink disruptions
* Ukrainian forces liberate 9 eastern settlements as Russian troops face Starlink disruptions, Ukraine's military says
* As Ukrainian regions start preparing for next winter, Kyiv lags behind
* Zele...
Ukrainian forces liberate 9 eastern settlements as Russian troops face Starlink disruptions; As Ukrainian regions start preparing for next winter, Kyiv lags behind; Zelensky floats swapping Patriot missiles for interceptor drones amid increased Iranian Shahed threat; and more.
03.03.2026 21:50 β
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π΄ Russian LNG tanker Arctic Metagaz reportedly on fire in Mediterranean, Reuters reports.
The vessel, which is currently under both U.S. and UK sanctions, was last spotted off the coast of Malta on March 2, according to MarineTraffic data.
03.03.2026 22:06 β
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Women reflect on safety five years after Sarah Everard's murder
Five years after Sarah Everard was murdered, women continue to change their behaviour to stay safe.
#BBCNews - Women reflect on safety five years after Sarah Everard's murder
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The women interviewed by BBC London said male violence against them posed a persistent threat - with little, if anything, having changed to improve women's safety in public spaces.
#SarahEverard
03.03.2026 22:14 β
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German Chancellor Merz after meeting Trump:
The Russian giant today stands on feet of clay.
And that is why we want to come to solutions here, but also solutions that involve the Europeans.
03.03.2026 22:26 β
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Bonhoeffer on wisdom: π
"Knowledge of reality is not just knowing external events, but seeing into the essence of things.
The best-informed person is not the most intelligent.
Precisely the best-informed people are in danger of missing the essential amid the variety." (Ethics, 29)
03.03.2026 22:26 β
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After the pensioner refused at Beecherβs Brook?
03.03.2026 20:49 β
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We're a few errant Iranian drones away from flights being forced to divert around the Cape of Good Hope.
03.03.2026 20:45 β
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03.03.2026 20:47 β
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βThe Russian LNG tanker Arctic Metagaz, which belongs to Russia's shadow fleet, is on fire in the Mediterranean Sea near Libya.β
03.03.2026 20:47 β
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If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
03.03.2026 14:26 β
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Who could have foreseen that a massive aerial bombardment of a country with a huge stock of drones might lead to airspace being closed?
03.03.2026 20:32 β
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Tracking our *negative* voting intention (who would Britons vote AGAINST):
β‘οΈ Ref 38% (+9)
πΉLab 34% (-4)
π³ Con 7% (-1)
π Green 7% (+4)
π¦β LD 3% (-)
changes w/ Nov 2025
As Reform has plateaued in the polls, the number of people saying they would also vote *against* Reform has grown
03.03.2026 15:25 β
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βApparently surprisingly few locals have espressoβd interest in working for themβ
03.03.2026 20:40 β
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National Employment Office, Brussels. 1959 by Yvan and FranΓ§oise Blomme. If there's an opposite of fun architecture, this is probably it.
03.03.2026 20:41 β
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A peculiarly Brussels vision of modernism. 1941 HQ for the association of Belgian millers. By Yvan Blomme in the same blue-stone, yellow-brick aesthetic he and his father deployed for Gare du Midi.
03.03.2026 20:41 β
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This is also how he treats women.
03.03.2026 20:42 β
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Think it's fair to say the Stena tanker fleet have not been lucky ships recently.
(Stena Immaculate, incinerated off the Humber last year, was a sister ship)
03.03.2026 20:37 β
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The international situation which Starmer inherited was and is horrendous
03.03.2026 20:32 β
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Telegraph declines to tell regulator how fake banker story got published
The Telegraph has refused to tell IPSO how an article about a made-up banker supposedly hit by school fee rises came to be published.
Extraordinary that the Telegraph is refusing to tell Ipso how its story about imaginary couple Al and Alexandra Moy and their non-existent children Ali, Harry and Barry got published.
03.03.2026 15:28 β
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Veteran silk Robert Venables KC denies tax evasion charges.
Venables famously threatened to βset the dogsβ on anti-tax-avoidance campaigners and called them βtrespassing scumβ at the Golden Handshake awards in Oxford in 2012. A trial is due later this year.
www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/veteran...
03.03.2026 19:23 β
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The @ipso.co.uk ruling of Telegraphβs preposterous βWe earn Β£345k but soaring private school fees mean we canβt go on five holidaysβ, reveals the article to have been a fabrication. There is no such family as Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy. Glad to have acted as lead complainant on this.
03.03.2026 19:40 β
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Congratulations to Ian on the success of his complaint against the Telegraph
03.03.2026 20:28 β
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Nigel Farage is off to the USA to do a speech to a US think tank this weekend.
No visit to Clacton, cares more about Republicans than British people.
03.03.2026 18:16 β
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